With experience of running a business, one learns that the website is the face of its business, and is very important for the company's success and growth. It is the key platform where your business interacts with leads and clients. Your website design needs to work for you. You should probably ask these questions.

• Is my website making me enough money as it should?
• Is it bringing quality leads?

In the majority of the cases answers will be disappointingly no. Your website should look like an online billboard; it should be operating as a lead generating machine that motivates the potential client to make purchases of your products and/or services. It should speak for itself.

Design of your website is the main component of lead generation. Most of the successful business websites have the following four aspects in their website design:

1. Content of the website should be professionally written.
Content writers can help to create quality content for your website with their unique talent of writing and expertise in marketing and selling services to buyers. If you want to have an increase in the leads generated from your website make sure it’s written by a professional content writer, otherwise you won’t be able to reach the targeted audience.
Content writers use the following tactics to increase the lead:

1. They research about the service and know the targeted audience.
2. They have an expertise in marketing strategies.
3. They present the problem in a unique way gradually reaching a solution and hence selling your service in a creative way.

2. Website design oriented towards lead generation.
Every website should be designed for a specific purpose and have a clear "cal-to-action", in our case it is to generate quality leads. An experienced web developer understands the importance of the good website design. If your website is well designed it will lead the user to the contact section which will add conversions. Without a thoughtful web design, users may lose interest. Make sure you give importance to these issues while designing a professional website.

1. Colors scheme and tone
2. User friendly
3. High quality images

You can also view portfolios to get understanding of how a good website looks.

3. Websites need to be search engine optimized.
Every business owner knows the importance of search engine optimization (SEO). It’s very helpful to succeed for a business by ranking it high on search engines. The design, content and key words linking with your service gives good results when we talk about lead generation. While launching a website, good use of key words, structure and solid back end is just not enough for ranking. Social marketing is also very important.

4. Superiority in Website Functionality.
You won’t be able to get a lot of reach if your website is broken, not updated and slow. To get more leads your website needs to be fast, and should have a structure that is easy to understand. Some of the common mistakes can be:

1. Website navigations that are sprawling
2. Information not easily accessible
3. Pop up adds and scripts that slow down the loading of the page

Make sure to follow these four aspects in your website design to get more reach. Contact us today with any questions or to discuss your site needs.

Google always wants to create an awesome experience for their end user. They want to create websites that people can trust and Google goes to a lot of work to weed out the bad from the good websites. In July of 2018, Google is rolling out a new version of Chrome that is going to access websites based on whether they are secure, or not secure. As a small business owner, you are going to need to make sure that you have a secure website. 

How do I know if your website is secure or not?
Google is going to be giving 2 identifiers in the browser. If you have a secure site... it will state in green 'SECURE'. That let's all visitors to your site know that they can feel confident and trust in sharing their email address, name, pay for products, and engaging with your website. If your domain name is not secure, there will be a gray button that states 'NOT SECURE'. Some users will leave your website because they are afraid to leave there private information on a non-secure site. 

What do I need to do to secure my domain name?
You will need to get a secure sockets layer certificate (SSL certificate). Simply contact your web hosting company or your website designer to let them know that you are ready to go from HTTP to HTTPS and have a secure website. This will give visitors peace of mind and have them trust in engaging with you and your website. You want to have a professional, secure website, and keep Google happy so that they don't penalize your site and they continue to give you great search engine optimization so that your site continues to rank. Grow your business and attract more clients. 

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